"Those Good Ole Country People"

In the story, good country people, there are four main characters in the story and their names are very important. There is Mrs. Hopewell, a farm owner, who thinks she is superior to other people. She also has a daughter who has ways like her. Joy Hulga, she is very smart and has a PhD in philosophy. Then we have Mrs. Freeman and her two daughters that stay next to Mrs. Hopewell and she also works for her too. The two daughters Glynese and Carramae, Carramae is fifteen and married and pregnant and Glynese is eighteen and has many admires. Finally we have Manley Pointer who is a bible salesman who is seen to be a good person when he was first met.
Mrs. Hopewell’s name is very interesting because her name is hope and well and knowing that and reading the story a person would think that she is one of the good people in the story. She can sometimes see the good in people but the ways that she sees them will make a reader think of her in a different way. First impressions with her are very weird but yet a first impression, she meets and greets but sees the outside look and judges the appearance. On one incident where she meets Manley Pointer, he comes to sell his bibles and she tells him, “You might as well put those up,”… “I don’t want one” (O’Connor 106).
Then there is Manley Pointer, some will see him as a con man and also a weird guy. He comes to sell bibles but towards the end of the story readers find out that he doesn’t believe in God and that he uses that act to get over on people and most readers don’t believe his story about the heart condition. His name is Manley; readers would take that as seeing him wanting to be manly or his personality as being manly. Once he gets into the house, he starts off by telling them that he has a heart condition and he sees Joy Hulga starting to tear up and putting his con man skills to work he can tell that they both have the same condition.
Joy Hopewell is the smartest yet meanest person in the story, she feels she is better than everyone because she has a PhD and that she is really smart. When she was young, her confidence was shot down, literally. She was hunting when she was a kid and one of her legs were shot off and every since then she felt ugly. Once she was old enough to get her name changed, she changed it to Hulga. She felt as though her name should match who she was. She has a fake leg and she stomps around the house as thought she is mad at the world but she also looks down on everyone because of her PhD, but one day her smarts were put to the test when Manley Pointer seduced her and invited her to come to the barn. Once they were in the barn they climbed up the ladder and started to talk. They started out talking about her fake leg and she showed him how she puts it on and takes it off, then he asked to try and she let him. When she let him do that, he stole her leg and left her in the barn, helpless and far away from home.
Last but not least is Mrs. Freeman; her name is very creative and well put together. Free and man, even though she works for Mrs. Hopewell she doesn’t take orders from anyone. She’s her own woman and she has her own thoughts. She believes in what she wants to believe and she doesn’t let anyone tell her different. At the Beginning of the story the narrator says that she has a neutral expression and sometimes two others, forward and reverse. She has her two daughters Glynese and Carramae, who also work for Mrs. Hopewell. Some readers would say that some of their characteristics come from their mom. Mrs. Freeman can be quite and nice but reading this story, Mrs. Freeman is one of the people who path no one should cross.

HIGHER POWER

SOMEONE TO LOOK UP TO
SOMEONE WHO IS GREAT IN ALL ASPECTS

YOU GO TO FOR HELP
YOU SEE AS A FRIEND

ONE WHO IS ABOVE ALL
I AM

A HIGHER POWER

BLOGGING???

its weird that blogging is apart of our grade...but since we have to do it...imma do my best at doin it...in class we are about to start on poetry...wonder how that class is gonna go......zzzzzzzzz....lol naw not for me...i secretly like poetry...guess its not a secret anymore


roses are red
violets are blue
what am i doin wit a guh like u
im the man thats very sweet
and ur the girl with the very sharp teeth
but i fell in love wit u
its so crazy how no one knows about u

where's my muzik???

trying to see how to put music on my blog...lol tired now so im bout to hit the sack

my topic for essay #2

Discuss the name symbolism in "Good Country People:" Mrs. Hopewell, Joy-Hulga, Manley Pointer, Mrs. Freeman, Glynese, Carramae. How does each character's name seem to suggest certain qualities of that person and his/her role in the story?

Larry Holiday
Mrs. S. Aiken
English 1102-45
09-08-09
“A Clean Well-Lighted Place”

In the story “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway, there are three main characters and all of their personalities take on a setting in the story. The settings in this story are very important when you want to explain the characters and their point of views. The three different characters in the story are all static. We have a young waiter, an older waiter and we have a drunken old guy.
In the story we have this young waiter who works at this café and on this one night he is ready to go home and we have this customer who is there and the young waiter is ready for him to go home. The café is very clean and neat and the gentleman who is sitting in drinking isn’t bothering anyone and the young waiter still does his job by serving him but at the same time he is ready for him to leave because he is tired of going home at three a.m. The young waiter says, “He has no regard for those who must work” (Hemingway 97). The young waiter feels that he should be able to come to work, do his job and then come home to his wife.
On the other hand, we have an older waiter who sees the guy as a great customer. “This old man is clean. He drinks without spilling. Even now, drunk. Look at him” (Hemingway 97). The older waiter sees where the old man is coming from; he doesn’t mind that he sits in the café all night. He basically feels sorry for the guy because after the café closes on that night there is nothing that the old man can go to and he basically has nowhere to go. The old man then leaves the café and walks the dark streets at night until the café opens again. So the old waiter doesn’t mind the old man and if he wants service they have to give it to him. Soon after the last drink the two waiters closed down the café and saw the old man leave walking down the street.
The old man, once had a great life. He was happily married and he had all the wealth but still he tried to commit suicide. He had a niece that looked after him and she came to visit him one day and had to cut him down from a rope that he hung himself with. The old man was once married and now that he’s alone he sits in the café all night and drink. Since the man is alone he likes to have his drinks in a clean well lighted place. He is also deaf and he likes to be in a place where it is quiet and he can enjoy his drinks in peace. After they finally closed the café the old man left and walked the lonely dark streets. The older waiter went to an all night bar and he described it as the light being pleasant but the bar was unpolished (Hemingway 99).
In the story “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” the three characters reflect the mood and setting of the story and how they react to the situation of the old man sitting in the café. The younger waiter sets a negative mood by rushing the old guy out of the café, and the older waiter sets a positive mood on the setting by not minding the old guy sitting all night in the clean café. The old Man sets a sort of a negative mood because he sits in the café all night drinking and he’s deaf and he almost killed himself. So the settings in the story are different depending on which point of view you are looking from.